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View SchemaDramatic Shape Sensitivity of Directional Emission Patterns from Similarly Deformed Cylindrical Polymer Lasers
| Authors | Harald G. L. Schwefel, Nathan B. Rex, Hakan E. Tureci, Richard K. Chang, A. Douglas Stone, Joseph Zyss |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0308001 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0308001 |
| DOI | 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000923 |
| Journal | JOSA B, Volume 21, Issue 5, 923-934, Mach 2004 |
Abstract
Recent experiments on similarly shaped polymer micro-cavity lasers show a dramatic difference in the far-field emission patterns. We show for different deformations of the ellipse, quadrupole and hexadecapole that the large differences in the far-field emission patterns is explained by the differing ray dynamics corresponding to each shape. Analyzing the differences in the appropriate phase space for ray motion, it is shown that the differing geometries of the unstable manifolds of periodic orbits are the decisive factors in determining the far-field pattern. Surprisingly, we find that strongly chaotic ray dynamics is compatible with highly directional emission in the far-field.
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